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People said we were being alarmist when we said extremist Christian nationalists would use the abortion laws to target women trying to escape Texas to receive an abortion.
@georgetakei I can't see how this would be either enforceable or defensible.
@Steve @georgetakei There are license plate scanners everywhere now. Enforcement might not be impossible.
@WesternInfidels @georgetakei But they'd have to establish motive, and to do that, they'd need the cooperation of law enforcement in the destination state, which they're not likely to get. Without that, all other evidence is circumstantial.
@Steve @georgetakei I'm not a lawyer, I don't know how this really goes.
But if you told me a Texas court found a formerly-pregnant person guilty of the crime of pregnancy termination on the basis of circumstantial evidence alone, I would not be surprised at all.
In any case, the threat of getting dragged into court and turning a quiet, private decision into a public show is coercive in and of itself, whether the state is likely to prevail in such a case or not.
@WesternInfidels @georgetakei That's a solid point, and the most likely real-world effect of this -- coercion and stigma.
@WesternInfidels furthermore if any of those routes are close enough to the United States border the federal government can literally stop people and check their papers. It happens in New Hampshire all the time up by Canada on I-93. They claim they are looking for illegal immigrants but really all they are doing are catching people driving without a license or in possession of marijuana. They do it because they can.